| Gabriel Vistica on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:30:28 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-d] [s-b] Happy Holindays |
I believe at one point (before I joined), there was a form of punishment where
the player being punished was not allowed to use words larger than X number of
syllables. The greater the punishment, the fewer syllables allowed per word.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Justin Ahmann <quesmarktion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 2:11:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b] Happy Holindays
>
> Why were syllables important?
>
> Codae
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> ________________________________
> From: Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 1:10:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-b] [s-d] Happy Holindays
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Gabriel Vistica <gvistica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Apologies. I had misread the rule about ntime and was under the impression
> that
> > nyears were 0-based, while nweeks wer 1-based. My mistake.
>
> Wait, yeah. The first nyear is explicitly defined by Rule 3 as
> beginning with the probably-hypothetical nweek 0. So Corvette of
> nweeks ending in 3 is AGSHD. Well, we totally failed to party in
> Agora's dishonor. I hope they feel mildly insulted by the oversight.
>
> Fun fact: "nweek" is explicitly defined to be a two-syllable word,
> "for all purposes of grammar and syllable-counting." The Revival Era
> did not actually revive the aspect of the old rules that made
> syllable-counting relevant, so this is dumb, but there you go.
>
> Anyhow, I move to the Piazza.
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